Demon2330 opened this issue on Nov 23, 2011 · 34 posts
Penguinisto posted Thu, 08 December 2011 at 7:31 PM
I've stuck with using a laptop this go 'round for a couple of reasons...
I can sit out here in the living room with the missus, and play with CG all I want. With the desktop, I had to go sit somewhere else.
Yep - I have used desktops to heat the spare room, etc. I have the astronomical power bills to prove it.
My little critter holds up pretty good when compared to desktops of most Poser users (Core i7 CPU, GeForce 550M, 8GB DDR3 RAM (it was 6 until two nights ago), 750GB internal storage...) I can do "serious" CG on this thing without undue hindrance.
I travel on occasion (every damned job I've had in the past few years... it's like a curse or something). It's kind of hard to shove a desktop through the X-Ray machine at the airport.
I can plug into anybody's HDMI-capable television - at home, or at friends' homes (which makes taking movies over for friends to watch much, much easier).
Now certainly, I could build a positively badassed desktop, but my days of building an altar to the deities of CG and FPS gaming are over as far as I'm concerned. Also gone are the days of parking my arse in the home office for uninterrupted hours on end.
Such is life, you know?